Poems On: Memory - Season #3 Live at Poetry by the Sea

This is episode 6 of Season 3 in the Poems On series. It's a special show conducted before a live audience on May 21st, 2024 at Poetry by the Sea in Madison, Ct.Originally aired on June 20th, 2024, it features Al Basile with his guests Alexis Sears and David M. Katz as they read and discuss their poems on the theme of Memory.
Alexis Sears is the author of Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award: Best Book of 2022. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Cortland Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Rattle, and elsewhere. An LA native, she is Editor-at-Large of the Northwest Review and Contributing Editor of Literary Matters.
David M. Katz is the author of five books of poetry-The Biographer, In Praise of Manhattan, Stanzas on Oz, and Claims of Home, all published by Dos Madres Press, and The Warrior in the Forest (House of Keys). Poems of his have appeared in Able Muse, Poetry, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, PN Review (UK), The New Republic, The Hopkins Review, Shenandoah, Alabama Literary Review, The Cortland Review, and The Ekphrastic Review. He is a co-host of the Morningside Poetry Series in Manhattan. He posts frequently on his website, The David M. Katz Poetry Blog (davidmkatzpoet.com). He stars in Gulliver’s Paradise, a film by Shalom Gorewitz currently in production.

[@zararaab]

Wonderful poems tonnight. Thank you so much, Al. And thanks to. your guests.

[@albasile9]

You're very welcome! This worked very well, without our having to address the live audience directly - the conversation stayed among us three, as I hoped it would.